Word: curiae
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Died. Ildebrando Cardinal Antoniutti, 75, longtime Vatican diplomat, official of the Roman Curia and, most recently, camerlengo, or chamberlain, of the church, the prelate who administers the Holy See and supervises the election of a new Pope after the incumbent's death; in an automobile crash; near Bologna, Italy...
Wynn and Father Arrupe first met at Arrupe's office in the Jesuit Curia building, where the Jesuit superior general interrupts interviews to answer his own phone and otherwise shows little patience with pomp and ceremony. Just outside the office, Wynn noticed a small green cushion. That, Arrupe told him, was where he sits to pray in Zen Buddhist style, a habit he picked up while serving for 27 years as a missionary in Japan. "When we send a man to China, he becomes a Chinaman," explained Arrupe. "When we send him to India, he becomes an Indian...
Intramural exchanges in the higher reaches of the Catholic Church are seldom made public. But recently, the Society of Jesus confirmed that its superior general, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, had sent a letter of apology to a ranking member of the Papal Curia, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. Arrupe's letter expressed regret for an article in the London Observer by Father Peter Hebblethwaite, S.J., editor of the English Jesuit magazine, The Month. Hebblethwaite had attacked Benelli, who is considered one of Pope Paul VI's closest confidants and advisers, as being "concerned with prestige and pomposity...
...English Jesuit of having a "deeply deformed view of the life and the problems of the church today, fed by ancient polemics according to which everything in Rome is always wrong." Pope Paul undoubtedly had critics like Hebblethwaite in mind when he said in a recent speech: "The Curia is unfortunately disfigured in the eyes of those who know it and perhaps love it least, as though it were an artificial complex, bureaucratic, legalistic, preoccupied only with the external...
Despite the renewed tempest, General Arrupe declined to reprimand Hebblethwaite or dispatch fresh apologies to Benelli. Any action, said a Jesuit spokesman in Rome, would have to be taken by Hebblethwaite's superiors in England. The reaction was not surprising; many officials in Arrupe's own curia are known to concur quietly with Hebblethwaite's complaint...